Serbia striker Prijovic arrested for violating coronavirus curfew

Belgrade: Serbia striker Aleksandar Prijovic was arrested on Friday for violating the Balkan nation’s coronavirus curfew, police said on Saturday.

“Prijovic was arrested along with several other people
and they’ve been summoned to the prosecutor’s office,” national police director
Vladimir Rebic told Serbia’s state-run RTS television

broadcaster.

“They violated the curfew as they were having drinks in
the restaurant lobby of a Belgrade hotel after the 5 pm deadline and there were
more than five people present in total.

“The hotel is also responsible because the measures also
prohibit serving food and drinks… except if home delivery is feasible.”

The Serbian government has imposed a daily 5 pm to 5 am
curfew during weekdays and a more stringent weekend ban starting at 1 pm on
Saturdays till 5 am on Mondays in order to curb the spread

of the virus.

The government has also told residents to avoid picnics,
leisure activities and all forms of public gatherings in a bid to limit the
outbreak.

Serbia has so far registered 1,476 confirmed cases of the
coronavirus and 39 deaths.

Prijovic, who plays his club football for Saudi Arabian
side Al Ittihad, became the second Serbian player to breach the country’s
coronavirus measures after Real Madrid striker Luka Jovic was caught dodging

quarantine.

Criminal charges were pressed against Jovic on March 19
after he left his apartment in a Belgrade suburb, where he was ordered to stay
in a mandatory 28-day long self-isolation after returning to the country